Tammy Duckworth Quotes
The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
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Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
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Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
